Current Event

What's the Use?

Saturday November 3rd, 2012

What Goes Where and Why
at The Linkery
3794 30th St, San Diego, CA 92104RSVP required for this event only (30 spaces available)

6 - 7 PM

You Are What You Eat
at Art Produce Gallery Garden
3139 University Ave, San Diego, CA 92104
Music by Asha SheshadriFree and open to the public

7 - 9 PM

Critical Postcards
at Art Produce Gallery GardenFree and open to the public

9 PM

Reception & Music by Island Boy
at Art Produce Gallery GardenFree and open to the public

You are invited join us on November 3rd for What's the Use?,
a day of programming organized by the There Goes the Neighborhood collaborative.

The first event of the day is a workshop called What Goes Where and Why from 2-5pm.
This workshop is targeted at local advocacy organizations working in San Diego. Attendees will delineate their organization's
current initiatives and obstacles with the intention of sharing these with other workshop participants.
Ultimately a document will be produced that diagrams each participant's specific initiatives in relationship with
the larger goals of workshop attendees as a whole. This document will be blown up large scale and handed over to
the mayoral administration taking office after the November 6th election. This event takes place at The Linkery. Free snacks and drinks will be provided.
Unfortunately there are only 30 spaces available for the workshop so please RSVP to
info [at] theregoes [dot] org
with the names of the individual from your organization that will be attending and organization name (please limit this to 3 people from each organization maximum).

After this workshop everyone is invited to join us for the rest of the day's public events taking place at
Art Produce Gallery Garden. These events include You Are What You Eat a free dinner hosted by TGTN in which
the contents of your meal correlates to how you view yourself as an active community agent. After You Are What You Eat
TGTN will do a second iteration of Critical Postcards. Critical Postcards is a series of short 20-30 minute
interviews that take place via Skype with artists and activists from around the country whose work engages public space in
innovative ways. Music by Asha Sheshadri accompanies You Are What You Eat. Critical Postcards is followed by a reception with music by Island Boy.

Critical Postcards are live Skype conversations with artists and activists from around the world
working on publicly engaged projects. Postcards that night include:

Jake Levitas
Research Director for the Gray Area Foundation For the Arts.
GAFFTA is an organization that brings together the best creative coders, data artists, designers, and makers to create experiments
that build social consciousness through digital culture. GAFFTA is the nation's leading organization dedicated to
furthering the use and advancement of creative technology for social good and artistic advancement. In this capacity, we maintain
relationships with the world's top academic researchers, innovative corporations, visionary artists, and civic leaders.
By continually engaging and connecting this diverse community with challenges and opportunities, we extract forward-thinking
technological solutions with proven capacity to create positive change.

Glen Wilson
Having included his recent film in the last iteration of There Goes the Neighborhood, Wilson will discuss the art space
he operated on Ray street in North Park in the late 1990's. The space led to a film project included as part of InSITE '97
called You Are Here (named for the space itself). Wilson's film captures a snapshot of what the neighborhood was
like before current gentrification. Recently Wilson has been revisiting North Park in order to continue the work on the film
started some 15 years prior by examining changes from his time in the neighborhood through the current moment.
We will discuss Wilson's film and these changes over time.

What's the Use?* is a neighborhood colloquium organized by There Goes the Neighborhood (TGTN) collaborative.
TGTN is a group of artists that facilitate creative forums for activists, advocacy groups, artists and concerned citizens to
discuss issues relevant to the organizational strategies of our cities; to rethink how this planning is done; and to make
connections across individuals and organizations in hopes of finding solutions to some of our common problems. We do this
by mixing the spontaneity and fun of community arts festivals with the probing analysis of academic conferences to produce
an artful forum for discussion.

* What's the Use? is programming developed by TGTN for
Living As Form (The Nomadic Version)
at the University Art Gallery at UC San Diego. Living As Form is sponsored by Creative Time. Nato Thompson is Chief Curator of
Living As Form.

Past Event

TGTN 2012

The second There Goes the Neighborhood! took place May 31-June 1, 2012. This year the focus of the There Goes the Neighborhood is "the neighborhood" as a nexus of global conditions which
manifest themselves in local, everyday, situations. These issues range from transportation networks to means of food
production to how information (and knowledge) is disseminated publicly.

Past Event

TGTN 2010

The first There Goes the Neighborhood! took place June 1-June 3, 2010. It focused on issues relating to gentrification and how art can play a role in neighborhood
revitalization and can also be complicit in the displacement of existing groups by those moving in.